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Originally Posted by Acey
A recommendation that the system be used to its fullest potential is not a lack of empathy, it's a desire for the system to work better. Do you acknowledge that I can both have empathy for children, and simultaneously realize that the Edmonton tornado rolling through is a far greater and immediate threat to public safety and should be treated as such in our alerting system?
The system has tiered levels of alerts that we have chosen not to use, as stated above. |
I am just having a hard time seeing the other side of this argument. If an alert for a missing person comes in, I look at the phone and quickly go through my memories to determine if I know anything relevant, if I don't, I go back to what I am doing and mentally catalog it in case something comes up later.
If I look at it and it says "Flash Flooding on the Bow River", I will similarly look at, and consider how to proceed.
Both of these situations have a critical time element for getting information out there to the most people. So what exactly would you change that wouldn't impact the efficacy?